# Kansas SB 250: Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient. Kansas SB 250, Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Public Health and Welfare; status became law, last action 2025-04-10 (Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB250-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 250 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient. - Status: became law - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-07 - Last action: 2025-04-10, Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on health and human services, senate committee on public health and welfare - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 10 (602 yes, 128 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 5 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Patients control specimen uses and profit agreements: benefit, low. Covered facilities must notify patients or their estates and ask consent for uses of biological samples beyond the patient's personalized treatment. Before profiting from a product developed from a sample, the facility must disclose each potential commercial use and obtain consent. That consent mus… - Providers gain protection for treatment recommendations: benefit, low. Kansas licensing boards cannot revoke, suspend, refuse to renew, or otherwise discipline licenses solely for recommending access to or treatment with these products. Entities responsible for Medicare certification cannot act against that certification solely because a provider recommends access. Co… - No new lawsuit right for treatment harm: cost, low. The law creates no private right to sue manufacturers or others involved in care for harm caused by these treatments when they follow the act in good faith and use reasonable care. This concerns the lawsuit right described by the act. It does not say that all other legal claims are barred. - Personalized treatment access for seriously ill patients: mixed, high. Kansas patients can request experimental drugs, biological products, or devices made only for them using their genetic profile. This includes personalized gene therapies and vaccines. A treating physician must confirm a life-threatening or severely debilitating illness, and patients must consider a… - Patients bear costs; heirs gain protection: mixed, medium. Written consent must state that patients owe all treatment-related expenses; liability extends to their estate unless the manufacturer contract says otherwise. If a patient dies during treatment, heirs do not owe outstanding treatment debts or debts from losing insurance because of treatment. The e… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Public Health and Welfare ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 36 Nay: 4 | pass | 36 | 4 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 9 Nay: 31 | fail | 9 | 31 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 119 Nay: 3 | pass | 119 | 3 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 97 Nay: 26 | pass | 97 | 26 | | | 2025-03-27 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-26 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 119 | 3 | | | 2025-03-19 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 97 | 26 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 36 | 4 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Cindy Holscher was rejected | fail | 9 | 31 | | ## Actions (24) - 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Will become law without Governor's signature (Senate) - 2025-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-03-26: Conference committee report now available (House) - 2025-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 119, Nay 3, Absent 3 (House) - 2025-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz appointed as conferees (House) - 2025-03-20: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Cindy Holscher (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2025-03-19: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 97, Nay 26, Absent 2 (House) - 2025-03-12: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2025-03-07: Hearing: Friday, March 7, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N (House) - 2025-02-20: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-20: Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Cindy Holscher (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Cindy Holscher was rejected; Yea 9, Nay 31 (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 36, Nay 4 (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-02-14: Hearing: Friday, February 14, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S (Senate) - 2025-02-10: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-02-07: Introduced (Senate) - undated: Allowed to become law without signature; 2025 Kansas session laws, chapter 103 (Governor) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_enrolled.pdf) ## Related bills - SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. 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(failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by House Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_250/sb250_enrolled.pdf) ## Related - [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026) - [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026) - [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026) - [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026) - [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026) - [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB250-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).